Being a developer you see a lot of code and in my persute to be the best, I look to perfect my code. When you want to be the best you need to not only have the best code, but it also need to look the best and be functional. There are certain things you need to do when coding to perfection to make it the best for not just yourself, but for others to read as well. You have to bare in mind that other people will be judging you on your code for a job maybe, and then also using your code which you want to be easy read for them.
Author Archives: Chris Pateman - PR Coder
Dont be a fool and use the back up tools
Backing up your data is the most vital part of any business and individual person can do. This is the biggest must, but people still don’t think about it. Due to recent events I think it would be good to share my views and tips on the best solutions.
When will hardware hit the wall
Hardware is becoming more and more amazing, but it is getting to that limit of, what can you do next. Most every update in hardware these days is new CPU, better RAM and better graphics. Only problem is CPU is so fast no one really notices or cares about faster. RAM is up to like 16GB to 32GB commercially, which for the generally user is more than perfect. Graphics are normally 1080p, but can go to 4K which is as good as the human eye can see.
PRISM and snoopers
Just listening to a podcast and they were saying about governments reading your email and how they are trying to find ways to encrypt their data, so I just thought I would put my opinion.
Relative Vs Absolute Position
Building multiple websites and seeing a lot of other peoples code, I see how people use and miss use the property position in CSS. In particular it is between using relative and absolute positioning of the elements. They both have their place, but where is it?
How To for the Twitter Card
Bing bing, twitter email… it’s twitter card. Twitter has developed a new feature called twitter card, but how do you use it? when I was setting up the PureRandom twitter card, I followed all the instructions, but still got a bit confused. This could be just me, though it never hurts to help others.
Which Viewport Width?
Responsive designs are the current and the future, but how do you build yours? When you build a responsive website one of the key parts is the view port. This tells the browser details on how to view the website it is requesting. The question is what do you tell it?
E-shot dos and dont are leading to just dont
We have been doing HTML emails for clients for years now and over the time we have seen many changes in what you can and can’t do when building them. The problem is they are moving to what you can’t do, so are we soon going to loose the way we can code e-shots?
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